Several dealers across the country are reportedly holding customer deposits worth hundreds or thousands of dollars for the 4C, with some of those deposits received as early as two years ago. “We’ve already got cash deposits on eight of those 4C coupes,” a Chrysler Group dealer located in South Carolina told Automotive News.

So far, 83 Fiat dealerships have been granted Alfa Romeo franchises, while three have been greenlit to become Maserati dealerships. Still, there are more to come. The automaker reports it plans on introducing two more waves of Alfa franchises to dealers in the U.S. and Canada in the near future, with the first scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year, and the other scheduled for the first quarter of 2015. In five years, Chrysler plans on having about 300 Alfa stores total, but then again, that all depends on how well they sell. The brand reportedly plans on selling between 1000 and 1200 4Cs a year.

Alfa Romeo has a full product line coming to North America starting in 2016, and although we don’t know the specifics, we have a pretty good idea of what’s coming since the brand revealed its five-year plan earlier this year. A new mid-size sedan built on the Jeep Cherokee’s platform is one of the first to come, as production is slated to begin in early 2015. That car will debut in Europe before it comes to the U.S. in late 2016. Alfa’s five-year chart also revealed a utility vehicle and two compacts are also in the pipeline.

Alfisti aren’t the only ones excited for the 4C. Fiat dealers are anticipating the coupe’s arrival because they believe it should help boost sales at Fiat stores, which currently face the challenge of only selling two models. The Alfa Romeo 4C boasts a lightweight body and a 1.7-liter turbo-four with six-speed twin-clutch transmission, and the first 500 to arrive will be Launch Editions. A 4C Spider coupe is also expected to arrive shortly after the coupe.